Results for "Welch, James"

A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master ... Read More about Winter in the Blood

The 25th-anniversary edition of "a novel that in the sweep and inevitability of its events...is a major contribution to Native American literature." (Wallace Stegner)In the Two Medicine Territory of Montana, the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians, are living their immemorial life. The... Read More about Fools Crow

A contemporary classic from a major writer of the Native American renaissance — "Brilliant, brutal and, in my opinion, Welch's best work." —Tommy Orange, The Washington PostOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master ... Read More about Winter in the Blood (Penguin Vitae)

For this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker's vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat country of central Montana during the early 1940s. He writes, "It is a story about growing up, becomin... Read More about Winter Wheat

The classic account of Custer's Last Stand that shattered the myth of the Little Bighorn and rewrote history books. Custer's ill-fated attack on June 25, 1876, has gone down as the American military's most catastrophic defeat. This historic and personal work tells the Native American side, poignant ... Read More about Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

Harriet Ryegate, the proper daughter of Massachusetts Puritans, is the first white woman to go far into the wilderness beyond the upper Missouri. With her husband, a Baptist minister, she seeks to convert the Blackfoot Indians to Christianity. But it is the Ryegates who are changed by their "journey... Read More about If a Lion Could Talk